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Marcha A Fox

The Family History Fun Factor

Synopsis

If you're a genealogist, you'd give blood and pay money to go back in time and converse with one or more of your progenitors to find out what their life was really like. But what about your ggg-grandchildren? How are you preserving what makes life shine for you and your family? If you need some ideas, this entertaining and informative book is for you!

Author Biography

Marcha Fox’s passion for science fiction began as a child. Her determination to write in that genre knew no bounds, such that she even went back to college in her 30s to obtain a bachelor’s of science degree in physics, after which she spent over 20 years working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Science and engineering experience notwithstanding, it’s the unexplained mysteries of the cosmos, such as the concept of a universal consciousness, which provide the setting for Beyond the Hidden Sky, first volume of a four-part series. Centered on the Brightstar family who has been torn apart by a storm of political and scientific intrigue, they will stop at nothing until they are reunited.

Author Insight

No More Excuses!

If you don't think life is short then you need to ask someone who's a decade or so older than you. It is. Believe me. And often by the time you start to wonder how it was fifty years ago anyone who could tell you is dead and gone.
Gathering family stories and such may seem like work but you probably have a device that makes it as easy as the touch screen on your smart phone. Literally.
What are you waiting for?

Book Excerpt

The Family History Fun Factor

Using today’s technology simplifies the process significantly. For example, the next time you see grandpa use your smart phone to record one of his favorite stories. Better yet, make it a video. Having family stories preserved as told by their originator with his or her voice and inflections is undoubtedly more valuable and easier to obtain than a sketchy or poorly written summary. How many volumes of history have been lost for lack of writing skill or the discipline to keep a journal or record important events? However, some people can’t tell a joke much less a story and there’s no guarantee grandpa can tell it better than you could capture it in writing. The main point is to preserve it somehow. Even if his rendition isn’t worthy of a university oral history archive you can always use the recording later to write it up, if you’re so inclined. On the other hand, no matter how poor his storytelling skills may be it still represents an authentic grandpa, which conveys him and his personality to say nothing of his voice which otherwise will be lost to all but memory of those who knew him personally. Even if he was a horrible storyteller I would LOVE to hear my grandfathers’ voices, both of whom died before I was born. Wouldn’t you?